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The organizing panel of the program offered 200 bicycles and five life insurance contracts, worth VND 20 million each, to 205 needy children, totaling VND 470 million. AIA Vietnam also presented two computer sets to the SOS Children’s Village of Dong Hoi. At the event At the event, AIA Vietnam Director General Wayne Besant stressed that via the program AIA Vietnam hopes to spread love and share difficulties and bring meaningful gifts to needy children and people in Vietnam. The company also hopes to cooperate to raise public awareness of the rights of the child and help people live a better life and have longer life expectancy. Director General Wayne Besant believes that what is good for Vietnam is also good for AIA. In 2018, the program “Journey of Life” plans to hold 12 events throughout the country and present 2,700 bicycles and 100 life insurance contracts (VND 20 million each) to needy children. Translated by Song Anh … [Read more...] about “Journey of Life” held in Quang Binh province

The Charity Bike Run is one of the annual CSR activities of Shinhan Bank Vietnam Ltd. (Shinhan Bank), a chance to donate bicycles to underprivileged students in rural and remote communities in both the northern and southern areas of Vietnam. This year, the Charity Bike Run was held in Long An province’s Duc Hoa district on April 21, 2018 and Tan Cuong commune, Vinh Phuc province on May 12, 2018. Shinhan Bank CEO Shin Dong addressing the handing over ceremony in Duc Hoa district Be with underprivileged students on their study journey This is the fifth consecutive year when Shinhan Bank holds the Charity Bike Run, a community event where Shinhan Bank offer disadvantaged students with means of transport for their upcoming school year. The highlight of this activity was that Shinhan Bank staff took their turn to ride these bicycles themselves from a designed location to meet with these students at another assigned point, around 6 kilometers far from the starting location. … [Read more...] about Shinhan Bank helps underprivileged students on journey to school

Vietnam's Tran Van Thao became the country's first professional boxer to win mutiple regional honors, including the title of "Asia’s Fighter of the Year" on Monday. Thao, 26, became the first Vietnamesee fighter to win the Asia World Boxing Championship (WBC) belt in November 2017, and his name once again rang out at the 2018 Asia WBC Gala on Monday when he won the "Asia’s Fighter of the Year” award after defeating Thailand's Artid Bamrungauea three days before. Thao is unbeaten with 10 wins, including seven KOs. The Saigon-born athlete, nicknamed “The Trigger,” is the middle child of three brothers, and used to love fighting as a child, but that all changed when he started boxing lessons at 16. He’s now a cool, calm and collected man with a different mindset. “Boxing taught me to remain calm no matter what the situation, and not to use my skills in anger. It’s best to hold yourself back in front of trouble. What I've learned most from … [Read more...] about From childhood anger to series of knockouts: Vietnamese boxer’s journey to Asian crown

Music enthusiasts will be plunged into the world groove, a big bowl of fragrances from all seven continents. Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A unique and special night of world music will take place at DeN Bar & Café tomorrow night. Manuel Orkestar and Pedro Sebazt will plunge you into the world groove, a big bowl of fragrances from all seven continents. Their repertoire definitely will include Japanese gnawa, Iranian rock, Argentinian funk, Senegalese samba and Lebanese waltz.Music enthusiasts will start the evening’s journey with 70’s psychedelic rock and funk from all around the world, and the journey will go on through African, Arabian, Asian, Brazilian, gypsy and Latin dimensions. The music performance will be from 9pm to 12.30am. DeN is at 49 Làng Yên Phụ. Free entry. — VNS … [Read more...] about DeN hosts a musical journey around the globe

Vietnamese throughout the country are busy readying their households for the traditional storied trip of Vietnam’s family god to heaven on Thursday. In Vietnamese culture, the Kitchen Gods are characters regarded as part of the family meant to serve as a link between heaven and earth. As the legend goes, the gods ride a common carp every year to heaven on the 23rd day of the twelfth Vietnamese lunar month, several days before Tet (Lunar New Year), in order to report to the heavenly emperor on any of the family’s problems or deeds, good or bad, from the year. Tet begins on Feburary 16 and celebrations are normally ongoing during the week before and after the date. Dishes offered to the Vietnamese Kitchen Gods. Photo courtesy of Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Hanoi Accordingly, Vietnamese people attach significance to this year-end departure by tidying the kitchen and making offerings on a specially designed alter. In advance of the event, throngs of young mothers and women … [Read more...] about Young Vietnamese prep for Kitchen Gods’ heavenward journey

With the product “Learning English through Environmental Protection,” Bo Bo Nam, a Raglai ethnic minority student, has overtaken hundreds of other candidates from 13 provinces and won the competition “Hour of Code and YDI products 2017” in the framework of the YouthSpark Digital Inclusion (YDI) project.The “Hour of Code and YDI products 2017” competition was launched to encourage, inspire, and seek out young talents in ICT.It is hardly ever noticed that after classes Bo Bo Nam of the Cam Ranh ethnic minority boarding school in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa spent his evenings completing his programme with the 10-year-old outdated school computer.Despite being born to a poor farming family, Bo Bo Nam is smart and willing to learn. With his great passion for computer science, Nam was the first student to ask to borrow books for self-studying when his teacher introduced the ICT and Computer Science programme of the YouthSpark project at … [Read more...] about Ethnic minority students on the coding journey

A local production house has unveiled its plan to make a movie inspired by Vietnam’s remarkable journey at the 2018 AFC U23 Championship in China, where the team defied all odds The film project, titled ‘Viet Nam Oi!’ (Dear Vietnam!), will begin filming right after the tournament’s conclusion on Saturday, according to Minh Beta, founder of the Hanoi-based Beta Media production house in charge of the project. “This is a mark of honor that I as well as other Vietnamese football fans and film lovers would like to dedicate to our national U23 team,” Minh Beta said. “To me, the fact that they made it to the final was a miracle in itself. Regardless of the result of Saturday’s match, the players are the champions in the hearts of over 90 million Vietnamese people,” he added. According to Minh Beta, ‘Viet Nam Oi!’ will follow the journey of goalie Bui Tien Dung from a small boy to a national hero. Dung was praised for … [Read more...] about ​Vietnam’s fairy tale at AFC U23 journey to be adapted for the big screen

Travelling by train to relax and enjoy the view out the window is a pleasure for many travelers, and two train routes in Vietnam with stunning views were recently selected among the ten best train journeys in Asia by the UK-based newspaper The Telegraph. Hanoi - HCMC and Hanoi - Kunming listed in Top 10 best train journeys in Asia by UK's The Telegraph newspaper. Photo: Lonely Planet Taking 36 hours, the Reunification Express connects Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and reveals the beautiful natural and rural areas Vietnam boasts. The 1,600-km (1,000-mile) journey passes through a pastoral parade of pagodas, paddies and farmers wearing conical hats, together with beaches and mountains, The Telegraph wrote. Moreover, travelers can hop off along the way to relax at beach resorts in Nha Trang and the endless swathes of sand in Da Nang, Vietnam’s third-largest city, where they can also take in the beautiful Chinese, European, Japanese and Vietnamese architecture in the World … [Read more...] about Two train trips among Top 10 journeys in Asia

Cheering crowds welcomed the Olympic flame to a freezing Seoul on Saturday, where the torch will be paraded for four days before making its way to Pyeongchang for the start of the Winter Games. The outlook for next month's sporting extravaganza has brightened since North Korea confirmed its participation, lifting security concerns over the South's nuclear-armed neighbour. The North has agreed to send an unknown number of athletes to the Games, expected to be accompanied by a high-level delegation, supporters, observers and an art troupe. South Korean freestyle figure skater Park Hee-Jin raised the flame high before a crowd of hundreds who were gathered in the capital's Sangam district in a ceremony held just weeks before the event on February 9-25. Fans unfurled banners wishing the Olympics success accompanied by the rousing sound of traditional Korean drummers, while others took pictures with their phones. "I am happy to become the first torchbearer in Seoul", Park, wearing a white … [Read more...] about Olympic flame stops in Seoul on journey to Pyeongchang

Vietnam appeals to tourists in many ways, and there’s one way where you can just sit, stare and take in all its beauty: a train journey. The U.K.-based Telegraph recently selected its 10 best train journeys in Asia for 2018, and two of them are in Vietnam. Travelers can take a trip on the Reunification Express that winds north-south down Vietnam’s coast connecting Hanoi and Saigon and all points in between in just 36 hours. Those with more time can hop off along the way and dig deeper into coastal towns to feel the sand and local life in Da Nang, Hoi An or Nha Trang. Rural and natural landscapes dominate the 1,600km (1,000 miles) journey on a “pastoral parade of pagodas, paddies and conical farmers hats,” said the Telegraph. Last year, travel publisher Rough Guides also named the route one of the most scenic in Asia, where one can watch buffalos grazing in rice paddies and fishermen casting their nets in the sea as well as deserted white beaches and lush … [Read more...] about Telegraph names top 10 train journeys in Asia, and 2 of them are in Vietnam